Billy Joe Shaver

Discovery Green Announces 2013 Thursday Concert Series With The Suffers, Billy Joe Shaver, And Chase Hamblin

Discovery Green has formally announced the performers for the venue's weekly Thursday night shows, starting May 2. These free weeklies have everything you need, from beer, food, plenty of grass to stretch out on, and of course great music. This year's acts include The Suffers, Billy Joe Shaver, Ha ... More >>

The Departed

The 30 Best Texas Albums

Ranking the 30 best Texas albums of the past 30 years seemed like an impossible task. We did it anyway.

Merry Christmas, High Rollers: The Most Expensive Vintage Concert Tees On eBay

A few days ago I asked Rocks Off fans on Facebook what the most they had ever spent on a concert tee was. Most people topped out at $50 for touring legacy acts, while some shelled out a lot more for hoodies and limited-edition tees. Now the world of concert posters is a whole other animal unto its ... More >>

Top 5 People Who Should Be Judging American Idol

Over the weekend American Idol, struggling to remain relevant in the face of the televised singing-competition series it spawned like The Voice and X Factor, announced its final judges' panel for the upcoming 12th season that begins in January. According to Entertainment Weekly, joining the previous ... More >>

Which Texas Musicians Would Get Page 1 New York Times Obits?

Like it or not, death is an inevitable part of the news cycle. A big part of the news cycle, most of the time. Look at Tony Scott, Phyllis Diller and... wait, what time is it now? Rocks Off is not trying to be flippant at all here, because we had our own brush with the reaper less than a year ago: ... More >>

Billy Joe Shaver

Billy Joe Shaver

Billy Joe Shaver

"Whacko From Waco" & 10 Other Batsh!t Texas Songs

Texas: You're soaking in it.​Happy Texas Independence Day, everyone. Today The Only State That Matters officially enters its 175th year of pissing off the lesser 49 states and producing the best music anywhere on Earth. One of Texas' biggest honky-tonk heroes is of course Billy Joe Shaver, who ... More >>

Songs For Our Brother's 21st Birthday

Craig HlavatyLemmy (left, duh) and Jake Hlavaty​Today is the 21st birthday of one of Craig's Hlist's biggest musical influences: Not the Pixies' Doolittle, Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine, or even Operation Ivy's Energy LP. It's an actual person, our little brother Jake. The kid came of l ... More >>

Six Songs That Shoot First, Ask Questions Later

​If there's one musician whose advice is worth heeding, it ought to be Johnny Cash. But when the Man in Black sang "Don't Take Your Guns To Town," a whole lot of musicians must not have been listening. Perhaps they were tuning in one of Cash's other songs that takes a different point of view - ... More >>

Magnolia City Mixtape: All The Scoop In One Fell Swoop... ACL Starts Us Off

Mark C. AustinWe sure hope this doesn't happen two years in a row at ACL.​ Austin City Limits will be October 8-10 this year, and MCM expects the line-up to be released in the next month or so. You can sign up for the e-list to get first notice of who's playing. If your profile is updated by today ... More >>

Gimme Back My Bullet: An Eyewitness Account of Billy Joe Shaver's Trial

Even by his own rather lofty standards (marrying the same woman three times, losing several fingers on his right hand... oh hell, just read this story here), Billy Joe Shaver's recently concluded trial has to rank pretty far up there on the legendary Waco singer-songwriter list of exploits. As you ... More >>

In Honor Of Billy Joe Shaver's Epic Courtroom Performance: Five Great Trial Scenes From The Movies

If he was only a honky-tonk legend before last week, today Billy Joe Shaver is a true Texas immortal. His testimony at his own aggravated assault trial in Waco saw to that.Three years ago, Shaver shot a fellow drinker in the face in the parking lot of a Waco bar. That much is beyond dispute. Whether ... More >>

A Jury Of Billy Joe Shaver's Peers

Jury selection began this morning in the aggravated assault trial of country legend Billy Joe Shaver, who was charged after he shot a man in the face outside of a Lorena bar in 2007. Shaver's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, maintains Shaver shot Billy Bryant Coker in self-defense. All Hair Balls knows is, ... More >>

Discount iFest Tickets Through KPFT; GaGa On Sale Next Friday; Husk Blows Away; Free Ani D Tickets & Poster Show

Courtesy of iFest.org​The 40th anniversary of iFest is coming up next weekend, and this year music from the Caribbean will be spotlighted, with headliner and President of Funkadelia George Clinton (right; no relation to that other President). KPFT is also turning 40 this year, and for a limited ti ... More >>

Yes, We Admit It: We Have No Clue How To Judge A Two-Step Contest

Rocks Off has no idea how to judge a country two-step competition. A few weeks ago we were asked if we would take time out of our Friday night to judge Reliant Energy's Two-Step Showdown at Rebels Honky Tonk on Washington Avenue. Yes, that Washington Avenue. The one we spent our January mired in, r ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: "Nashville Phantom" Goes Off on the Scene's Country Music Poll

​Another 30-plus-year vet of Viet Nashville got his bowels in an uproar about the Nashville Scene's country music poll. In a long email to Lonesome Onry and Mean, this denizen of the songwriting trenches and the recording alleys who has had songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris and other g ... More >>

Aftermath: Willie Nelson and an Arena Theatre Audience Apparently Raised In a Barn

Photos by Jason Wolter​ Congratulations, Houston music fans! We are barely a week into the new year, and you already proven to Aftermath that our dreams and hopes for a new decade of change and decorum during live shows was just that: A wish that will never come to fruition, right up there with ho ... More >>

Talking Turkeys

Are Houston concert fans really all that bad?

Billy Joe Shaver

Houston's Most Unique Address

Noise Extra: "I've Found My Weakness in You" and Billy Joe Shaver on Houston

In this week's installment of Noise, Rocks Off's bass-playing friend and neighbor Nick Gaitan talks about how our building inspired his song "I've Found My Weakness in You," and how his boss Billy Joe Shaver liked it so much he decided to record it. Part of our conversation veered into Shaver's exp ... More >>

Texas Music on Sirius/XM's Outlaw Country

Lonesome Onry and Mean Extra: Billy Joe Shaver Indicted for Aggravated Assault

2008 HPMA Winner List

Weekend Music: No Money, No Problem

Your Weekend, Planned

Billy Joe Shaver, Everybody's Brother

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HouStoned Faces Don't Lie

Miss Pop Rocks: Ohmygawd…It’s Totally Carolyn Farb

Last Night: Billy Joe Shaver at the Armadillo Palace

This Charming Man

The ballad, and ballads, of Billy Joe Shaver

Rock and Roll Autobiographies

Stars' tell-all stories

Don't Take Your Guns to Town

Country Music Pistol Packers Hall of Fame

Update: Billy Joe Shaver Shooting

Hot Shot

He's Gone Country

The Nightfly tries out as the next Bocephus at Sam Houston Race Park

Owed to Billy Joe

Today all the best poets are singers. That's why a singer should be Texas's next poet laureate.

Pop-Up Pop Stars

With the help of city government, Matthew Knowles hopes to find the next Destiny's Child. You got a problem with that?

Ronald Reagan's Army

In your heart, you know the Yuppie Prick$ are right

A Trip to Bountiful

The Innkeeper is the best country venue in town. Too bad it's 50 miles away.

Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz

Drink's Bull Blaster

¡Viva Compadre!

Texas's greatest living songwriter signs with a Houston indie label

Billy Joe's Blues

Billy Joe Shaver has known great blessings and great curses

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The Earth Rolls On (New West)

Two Shots of Jerry Jeff

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